Li Fu v. Hong Fu’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 30 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably PV Ex Rel. TV v. Camp Jaycee (2008), Rowe v. Hoffman-La Roche, Inc. (2007)
10 federal appellate · 30 district · 78 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Kilberg v. Northeast Airlines, Inc. · Veazey v. Doremus · Mellk v. Sarahson · Gantes v. Kason Corp. · Gilbert Spruance Co. v. Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Ass'n.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the interests of interstate comity; (2) the interests of the parties; (3) the interests underlying the field of tort law; (4) the interests of judicial administration; and (5) the competing interests of the states.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the place where the injury occurred; (2) the place where the conduct causing the injury occurred; (3) the domicile, residence, nationality, place incorporation and place of business of the parties; and (4) place where the relationship, if any, between the parties is centered.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“seeks to apply the law of the state with the greatest interests in governing the specific issue in the underlying litigation.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.